the space is virtual
the consequences are real
“Today the development often moves faster in technology than in the cultural realm.
But neither language barriers nor the copyright industry’s war on technology should impede people from partaking in new technologies and cultures”
— anakata, 2005-02-06, TPB blog
“The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a website that provides torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. It was founded in Sweden in 2003.”
CCC has)“On 17 April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in prison and payment of a fine of 30 million SEK (app. 4,200,000 USD; 2,800,000 GBP; or 3,100,000 EUR), after a trial of nine days.”
anakata“On 27 November 2013 he was extradited to Denmark, where he was charged with infiltrating the Danish social security database, driver’s license database, and the shared IT system used in the Schengen zone. He is currently being held in solitary confinement, and is facing up to 6 years in prison in Denmark if he is found guilty.”
“an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit.”
“The system is changing. Thanks to the Internet, everyday people can learn about and organize around an issue even if the system is determined to ignore it. Now, maybe we won’t win every time – this is real life, after all – but we finally have a chance. But it only works if you take part.”
PACER dataJSTOR data“Around 2006, Swartz acquired the Library of Congress’s complete bibliographic dataset: the library charged fees to access this, but as a government document, it was not copyright-protected within the USA.
By posting the data on OpenLibrary, Swartz made it freely available.
The Library of Congress project was met with approval by the Copyright Office.”
PACER“In 2008, Swartz downloaded and released about 2.7 million federal court documents stored in the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) database managed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.”
PACERPACER“This was part of how Aaron approached things. [… His PACER activities were] a project to liberate the documents but also an effort to make public the problems that existed to hopefully solve the larger policy problem.”
“On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by MIT police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after systematically downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR. Federal prosecutors later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and 11 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution and supervised release.”
“Two years later, two days after the prosecution denied his lawyer’s second offer of a plea bargain, Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn, New York apartment, where he had hanged himself.”
“The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.
This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive ‘secrecy tax’) and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption.”
“Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems.
Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance.”
More leaks:
“Assange is wanted for questioning regarding alleged sexual misconduct with two women while in Sweden in August 2010, and has not been formally charged.
The arrest warrant was […]issued on 1 September 2010.”
“On 16 August 2012 Ricardo Patiño, the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, stated in a press conference that the Ecuadorian government was granting Assange political asylum.”
“Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service have remained stationed outside the Ecuadorian embassy since Assange entered the building on 19 June 2012. They have been ordered to arrest Assange if he attempts to leave the building.”
“Police disclosed in February 2013 that, as of 31 January 2013, the full cost of keeping officers outside the embassy was estimated at £2.9 million ($4.5 million).”
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”
“The Times 03/Jan/2009
Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
1 BTC = $820.00
blockchain.info/charts/market-price
“Nakamoto is believed to be in possession of roughly one million bitcoins. At one point in December 2013, this was the equivalent of 1.1 billion US dollars.”
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